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'If we don't play god, who will?'

— James D. Watson

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  1. 'No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?'
  2. 'There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.'

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  • ethics
  • science
  • creation
  • future
  • power
  • responsibility

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